Below are upcoming events as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website.

Events

TODAY: February 14, 2018

Sino-Africa Relationship: Africa-China Reporting Project

When: Wednesday February 14th, 1:00-2:30pm,

Location: The Arts Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower Dunton Tower

Tokunbo Ojo is an Assistant Professor in Department of Communication Studies at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research expertise are in journalism studies, media and international development, geopolitics of global communication, political economy of global media industries, and political communication.

TODAY: February 14, 2018

It is now widely acknowledged that virtual and non-virtual worlds are not discrete entities. Experiences within virtual reality (VR) “can be claimed as practically real: that is, they are not ‘just’ fantasies, they have an authority which would not apply to overtly ‘fantastic’ activities such as day-dreaming” (Ferreday, 2009, p. 50). Similarly, sex involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to new sexual ontologies such as sex robots, new sexual subjectivities, such as digisexuals, and new representational practices, such as deepfakes. This talk explores how VR and AI blur the distinctions between virtual/real, fantasy/reality, illusory/actual, mind/body, subject/object, emotional/physical, distasteful/dangerous, and pleasurable/harmful. I consider the ontological and affective dimensions of sex 3.0 and the potential legal implications of developments in sextech.

February 15, 2018

About the Book:Curating Community argues that museums and constitutions invite visitors to gloss over the biases and complexities of society. The book asks us to reconsider deep questions about how we conceptualize the limits of ourselves, as well as our political communities, in order to attend to everyday questions of justice in the courtroom, the museum, and beyond.

About the Author: Stacy Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies. Her research interests pertain to theories of democracy, the role of the state, the relationship between government and governed, and processes of decolonization.

February 15, 2018

Wayne Cox Talk – Against All Odds: Contemporary State Formation and the Case of the Kurds

Thursday, February 15, 2018, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., A602 Loeb

Dr. Wayne S. Cox, Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies & Fellow, Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University

February 16, 2018

The Evidence Room Looks at the Role Architecture Played in the Holocaust

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism is displaying The Evidence Room in its Lightbox Gallery on campus until February 16.

The Evidence Room is an ambitious and powerful reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz, and takes a look at the disturbing relationship between architecture and the horrors of the Holocaust.

February 21, 2018

Faculty cuLearn Drop-In

This drop-in session for faculty provides an opportunity to work on your cuLearn course with an educational technology consultant nearby who can answer questions and help with course preparation. Registration not required. Stay for the whole session or drop by for some quick help.

Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: 422 Dunton Tower

If this time does not work with your schedule, or if you would like to learn a cuLearn introductory session, you can also book an appointment for one-on-one consultations about any aspect of cuLearn, including the gradebook. Don’t forget to check out our support site for answers to frequently asked questions and other resources to help you along.

February 26, 2018

The Faculty of Public Affairs presents the 2018 FPA Research Excellence Award Symposium: Liberal International Institutionalism on the Decline? Rethinking African Treaty Withdrawals with Speaker Kamari Clarke.

February 27, 2018

Between 1968 and 1973, Kiyooka published no fewer than eight books that variously contained photography, non-fiction, prose fiction, and poetry depicting lesbian lives, books that formed part of a “lesbian boom” in the Japanese media. Kiyooka’s non-fiction and early lesbian photography in particular document and offer a practical guide to contemporary lesbian life in Japan and beyond, including Korea, Vietnam, and Okinawa. She also draws on lesbian history focused on ancient Greece, Japan, and elsewhere to make utopian claims about the future for lesbians in Japan and globally. Yet, perhaps owing to her work’s androcentric appeal and sometimes salacious tone, Kiyooka has been absent from lesbian histories by members of the community.
Dr. James Welker of Kanagawa University will contextualize Kiyooka’s contribution to non-fiction and photography and shed light on why she has not been claimed as a pioneering lesbian
photographer, writer, and activist in Japan.

March 8, 2018

“Cultural Policy and Economic Development, 1967-1982” featuring Dr. Sarah Brouillette from the Department of English Language & Literature. Between 1967 and 1982 UNESCO organized dozens of meetings dedicated to the discussion of cultural policy. These meetings were the first sustained attempt to think about how governments could and should be disposed toward cultural funding and administration. This talk argues that this rise of the cultural policy establishment is inseparable from worry about economic development and modernization. It was the pressing economic catastrophes of the era that directly shaped UNESCO’s turn toward culture as a prophylactic. But it was the permanent and ongoing crisis of integration of pre-capitalist enclaves into capitalist modernity that was the deeper source of the transformations that UNESCO sought to manage through its cultural programming.

The lecture will be held on Thursday March 8th at 2:30 pm in Dunton Tower 2017 with a reception to follow. Please RSVP to sarah.quirt@carleton.ca by Wednesday February 21, 2018

March 8, 2018

The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies presents: The Vickers-Verduyn Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies, Dylan Robinson — Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress

Dr. Dylan Robinson, is a Stó:lō artist and scholar, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current research focuses on Indigenous art in public spaces across North America, and his publications include the collections Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action inand Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016) and Opera Indigene (Routledge, 2011).

Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress.

Abstract: In 1929, folklorist Marius Barbeau writes about the significant collection of Indigenous songs represented in the Canadian Museum of History: “about three thousand of these are filed away at the museum.” Though efforts have been made by many museums in Canada to respond to Indigenous calls for the return and repatriation of Indigenous belongings, similar initiatives have yet to occur for songs that remain incarcerated in museum archives. This talk proposes Indigenous-defined methods of ethnographic redress that challenge settler colonial forms of “hungry listening”.

March 9, 2018

Works-in-Progress workshop with Audra Diptee

Our next Works-in-Progress workshop will take place on Friday March 9th. The featured presenter is Carleton’s history professor, Audra Diptee. The discussant will be Candace Sobers, from BGInS. The workshop topic will be: The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?. Same time – 12:00 – 2:00pm. We hope you will join us. Lunch is provided by us!

The series is a monthly workshop featuring discussions about faculty papers whose scope spans issues of global and international relevance. Papers are pre-circulated to workshop registrants. The goal of the works-in-progress series is to provide a forum for in-depth engagement and exchange on cutting-edge issues of global significance. We strive to have a lively, challenging and thought-provoking seminar and invite you to join us in providing an informative forum of discussion for a multidisciplinary audience, sharing at least one common interest, namely globalization and/or internationalism – whatever that means to you.

If you would like to register for the March 9th workshop or for any of the upcoming workshops in this series, or if you have general questions, please contact Jenelle.Williams@carleton.ca.

March 9, 2018

European Union Trade Policy in the 21st Century

On behalf of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University and the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, I am delighted to invite you to attend an international research conference titled “European Union Trade Policy in the 21st Century,” on Friday, March 9, 2018, from 8:00AM—4:00PM. The event will be held at Carleton University in the second floor conference rooms (rms. 2220-2228) in Richcraft Hall (formerly the River Building) (please find a campus map here).

This full-day conference will bring together scholars from Europe and North America, mainly from the fields of political science and economics, to assess and discuss recent developments in the EU’s trade policy as well as challenges for the future. The conference will be divided into 3 main sessions: the EU’s trade strategy and process; the EU’s trade relations with important partners; and the politicization of trade policy in the EU. Please find a copy of the draft agenda at the event webpage.

This event is sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, and is funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union, by the Faculty of Public Affairs as part of its Research Month, and by Carleton University.

Registration for this conference is required. To register, please visit the event webpage here.

March 15, 2018

Book Launch: Human Rights in Africa

Time: 1:30 PM
Where: Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library

About the Author. Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh teaches Human Rights History and African History in the Department of History and the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster Arts & Science Program and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. He has taught in universities in Africa, Europe and North America. Previously, he was professor at Brock University, Canada; professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Asheville; Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at Ambrose Alli University and the University of Lagos.

His research interests are global human rights, peace/conflict studies, legal and imperial history. His articles on these themes have appeared in historical and interdisciplinary journals – Human Rights Quarterly, The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Journal of Global History, and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (Journal of the American Psychological Association).

March 15-17, 2018

The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. In March 2018, the Department of History, Carleton University, will be hosting the 24th Annual Colloquium. This year’s theme, “Storying Our Pasts: Historical Narrative and Representations” highlights historical output and means of storytelling. We hope to draw on different methodologies in a self-reflexive dialogue about how historians present and share their research.

See attached document for more details about the colloquium.

2017–2018

History Department Brown Bag Occasions

The History Department invites you to a series of Brown Bag Occasions taking place in our History Lounge (433 Paterson), starting at 12:30. Bring your lunch and join us for the last talk this academic year:

April 6, 2018

Works-in-Progress workshop with Karim Karim

Our next Works-in-Progress workshop will take place on Friday April 6th. The featured presenter is Carleton’s journalism and communications professor, Karim Karim. The discussant will be Natasha Bakht, from the University of Ottawa. The workshop topic will be: A Legacy of Ignorance: Western and Muslim Failures to Understand the Other. 1:00 – 3:00pm. We hope you will join us. Lunch is provided by us!

The series is a monthly workshop featuring discussions about faculty papers whose scope spans issues of global and international relevance. Papers are pre-circulated to workshop registrants. The goal of the works-in-progress series is to provide a forum for in-depth engagement and exchange on cutting-edge issues of global significance. We strive to have a lively, challenging and thought-provoking seminar and invite you to join us in providing an informative forum of discussion for a multidisciplinary audience, sharing at least one common interest, namely globalization and/or internationalism – whatever that means to you.

If you would like to register for the April 6thworkshop or for any of the upcoming workshops in this series, or if you have general questions, please contact Jenelle.Williams@carleton.ca.

Announcements

The Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

11th Annual Decolonization Conference of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies November 8-10, 2018 OISE, University of Toronto

CIARS is pleased to announce that it is holding its XI Decolonizing Conference for critical dialogues on the theme of “Dialoguing and Living Well Together: Decolonization and Insurgent Voices”. Using a Decolonizing perspective, the conference hopes to explore new meanings of “living well together” outside of White mythology (in Derrida’s terms) and the capitalist paradigm. We ask: how do we bring non-Western epistemologies to a terrain that has existed through a long-exercised White Mythology? What Indigenous experiences speak to the possibility of living well together in new futures? What additional dimensions of the above can be gleaned from the constant mobility of bodies, identities, subjectivities and relations?

CIARS welcomes a wide range of submissions, from individual papers to arts-based installations, and more! We highly encourage a range diverse critical contributions.